Special fields of anthropology The anthropological study of religion The anthropology of religion is the comparative study of religions in their cultural, social, historical, and material contexts. The English term religion has no exact equivalent in most other languages. For example, burial practices are more likely to be called customs and not sharply differentiated from other ways of doing things. Early Homo sapiens for example, the Neanderthals at Krapina [now in Croatia] began burying their dead at leastyears ago.
Spring festival Among ethnic minorities, the most populated are Tay, Thai, Muong, Hoa, Khmer, Nung… with a population of around 1 million each, while the least populated are Brau, Roman, Odu with several hundred people each. The Viet people succeeded in establishing a centralized monarchy right in the 10th century.
The Cham people once boasted a flourishing culture early in the history. The Tay, Nung, and Khmer peoples had reached high levels of development with the presence of various social strata. Many ethnic groups divided their population into social echelons, especially those who lived in mountainous areas.
A number of ethnic minorities had mastered some farming techniques. They grew rice plants in swamped paddy fields and carried out irrigation. Others went hunting, fishing, collecting and lived a semi-nomadic life. Each group has its own culture, diverse and special.
Beliefs and religions of the Vietnamese ethnic minority groups were also disparate from each other. However, a fundamental solidarity among ethnic groups has been established on top of this difference as a result of a centuries long cooperation on the soil of Vietnam.
Right in the first century of the history, a mutual supplement in economic relationship between lowland people and mountainous people was formed. This solidarity had been unceasingly strengthened during wars of resistance for defending the country. Through the shared struggle for defending and building of the country and the mutual assistance for co-existence and development, a common community between the Viet people and other ethnic minority peoples had been established and continuously consolidated and developed.
Nonetheless, an evident gap in the material and moral life has indeed still existed between peoples living in the deltas and those living in mountain areas as well as among ethnic minorities themselves.
The Vietnamese government has worked out specific policies and special treatments in order to help mountainous people catching up with lowland people, and made great efforts to develop and preserve traditional cultural identities of each ethnic minority group.by Race, Ethnicity and Natl Origin Permission granted to link this site to your Webpage Data compiled William F.
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In , Robert Templer published Shadows and Wind, a book that struck me then as a very perceptive account of Vietnam. Bill Hayton refers to Templer's book both at the beginning and end of Vietnam, Rising Dragon, perhaps understanding that his book will be .
This week, we've examined global comparative data on ethnic diversity (here's our map of the most and least diverse countries) and, more controversially, on racial tolerance (here's our map of.
Anthropology - Special fields of anthropology: The anthropology of religion is the comparative study of religions in their cultural, social, historical, and material contexts. The English term religion has no exact equivalent in most other languages.
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Privacy Policy. Introduction. According to federal law, the United States' military involvement in the Vietnam War began in February and lasted until May Approximately million American men and women served in Vietnam. During the war, more than 58, servicemen and women lost their lives.